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U.S. government wants to screen immigrants’ social media before granting citizenship


U.S. government are making big moves to scan immigrants social media before awarding citizenship in the United States. Immigrants applying for different types of citizenship will be soon need to provide their social media accounts as part of the application process. Following statements come from the Homeland Security. 
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The Department of Homeland Security wants to be able to review information posted on social media over the last five years by immigrants who apply for nine types of benefits — including U.S. citizenship through naturalization, asylum and changes on permanent residence through marriage — according to a notice published in the Federal Register.

“U.S. Government departments and agencies involved in screening and vetting, to include DHS, identified the collection of social media user identifications (also known as usernames, identifiers, or ‘handles’) and associated publicly available social media platforms used by the applicant during the past five years, as important for identity verification, immigration and national security vetting,” states the DHS notice published last week. “For DHS, these data elements will be added to certain immigration benefit request or traveler forms where the information was not already collected,” it adds. 

This comes just after President Trump announces the change to the Executive Order which sets to enhance security on who comes into the United States. The Department of Homeland Security will collect information from the following social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, LinkedIn, YouTube, Reddit, Tumblr and Pinterest. The social media use would be demanded in the 9 of U.S. immigration forms. Failure of not providing social media information in the forms will result in the immigrants request for citizenship to be declined based solely on lack of information.

   Click here Immigration Process for my information on the immigration fight for citizenship


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